The Chinese Medical Association was founded in his clinic, and Zhong Nanshan was the 23rd president.
At the beginning of the Spring Festival, with the emergence of novel coronavirus infection, a battle without smoke began in Jiangcheng, threatening the health and safety of the people. Since the emergence of the epidemic, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council have attached great importance to it, and the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader has given important instructions, and Premier Li Keqiang has given important instructions, which have pointed out the direction for the prevention and control of the epidemic. In this emergency, the vast number of members of the Chinese Medical Association, regardless of their safety, stepped forward and built an iron wall of scientific prevention and control with their own flesh and blood in order to protect the health of the whole people with fearless revolutionary spirit and courage to give up others.
The hero of this paper is one of the main founders of the Chinese Medical Association, and a famous activist in the early days of the Chinese Medical Association. The Chinese Medical Association was founded in his clinic. He is Yu Fengbin, a disseminator of modern public medicine in China, a pioneer of modern medicine and a doctor of medicine from Taicang, Jiangsu. Academician Zhong Nanshan is the 23rd President of Chinese Medical Association, and he is the 3rd. Today, Xiaobian takes you to understand the brilliant career of this short life of Jiangsu people.
Yu Fengbin, born in Taicang, Jiangsu Province, graduated from St. John’s University in Shanghai in 1908. In 1912, he went to the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine to study public health and tropical diseases, and received a doctorate in medicine. He returned to China in early 1915.
Lan Lu, the main founder of Chinese Medical Association.
After the Second Opium War, western church medicine expanded greatly in China, and some elites of western medicine in China were absorbed into "China Bo Medical Association", but they were marginalized in foreign church medical groups. As early as 1910, Lien Teh Wu proposed that Dr. China should set up a national academic group of western medicine. In February, 1915, 21 China doctors from all over the country attending the annual meeting of the Bo Medical Association gathered in Shanghai. On February 5th, under the arrangement of Lien Teh Wu, Yan Fuqing and Yu Fengbin, these 21 doctors got together in Shanghai. Lien Teh Wu spoke first, telling the development status of western medicine in China, emphasizing the necessity of establishing a national western medicine group, and officially established the Chinese Medical Association of propose to create.
In February 1915, the Bo Medical Association held its annual meeting in Shanghai.
Lien Teh Wu’s proposal was unanimously endorsed by the participants, and the first leadership group of the Society was elected: Yan Fuqing as president, Lien Teh Wu as secretary and Yu Fengbin as general affairs. Yu Fengbin’s clinic at No.34 Nanjing Road in Shanghai is a temporary club for the Chinese Medical Association after its establishment. In August 1920, the Medical Association moved to No.352, Nanjing Road, Shanghai with Yu Fengbin Clinic. Until 1925, the Chinese Medical Association rented No.540, Tibet Road, Shanghai, but its mailing address was still No.352, Yu Fengbin Clinic, Nanjing Road. It can be seen that in the ten years after the establishment of the Chinese Medical Association, its office was provided by Yu Fengbin. As one of the founders of the Association, Yu actually undertook the main work in the early days of its establishment.
Old photos of Nanjing Road, Shanghai
At the "First Congress of Chinese Medical Association" held in February, 1916, Yu Fengbin was elected as the vice president and served as the editor-in-chief of Chinese Medical Journal together with Lien Teh Wu until 1925, which lasted for 10 years. In the meantime, Yu Fengbin edited and wrote a lot of articles for the journal, which made the influence of Chinese Medical Association expand day by day, and Chinese Medical Journal became the most authoritative medical academic journal in China. At the Third Congress of Chinese Medical Association held in 1920, Yu Fengbin succeeded Lien Teh Wu and was elected as the third president of Chinese Medical Association.
Academician Zhong Nanshan, academician of China Academy of Engineering, director of National Center for Clinical Medical Research of Respiratory Diseases, leader of high-level expert group, and leader of new pneumonia research expert group of Ministry of Science and Technology, served as the 23rd president of Chinese Medical Association from April 2005 to April 2010.
It has been more than 100 years since the Chinese Medical Association was founded. At present, it has 670,000 members, 88 specialized branches, 462 professional learning groups and 42 international/regional medical organizations, making it the largest academic group in China. At the time when China is fully fighting the novel coronavirus epidemic, I would like to pay tribute to all members of the Chinese Medical Association who are in the front line of epidemic prevention and control!
Enthusiastic, the moderator of medical terminology examination and approval
At the beginning of the establishment of the Chinese Medical Association, Yu Fengbin published the Opinion of Medical Terminology in the Chinese Medical Journal, clearly pointing out that it is most important to have standardized medical terms corresponding to Chinese and western languages in order to translate and compile Chinese western medical works.
1921 Chinese medical journal
This is a difficult and pioneering work. In February 1916, the Jiangsu Provincial Education Association came forward and organized 31 representatives from various medical groups in China to form the "Medical Terminology Review Committee", and the first national congress was held in August of that year. Vice President Yu Fengbin attended the meeting on behalf of the Chinese Medical Association and actually presided over the difficult work of unifying the Chinese translations of western medical terms. In 1918, the term review was extended to the whole natural science. Yu Fengbin knew that this work not only affected the spread of western medicine in China at that time, but also was a great project to promote scientific modernization in China, so he showed great enthusiasm and invested a lot of time and energy. Together with Shen Xinqing, a famous educator and master of Chinese studies, he presided over the examination and approval of scientific terms, and the ideal partner of Chinese and western cultures ensured the accuracy of the meaning of translated names.
During the 10 years from 1916 to 1926, the Medical Terminology Review Conference held 11 meetings, which reviewed 23 volumes of terms in anatomy, bacteriology, histology, physiology and pathology, and approved 8 volumes. In February 1927, Yu Fengbin’s Preface "A Collection of Medical Anatomical Terms" was published. In July, 1931, A Compendium of Medical Terminology was published, with 520 pages, with five languages in Chinese, Latin, English, German and Japanese. At present, the terms of natural science applied in China have been revised after several generations of scientists’ repeated consideration on the basis of these early works. Yu Fengbin presided over the examination and approval of scientific (medical) terms, which played an important role in promoting the spread and development of modern medicine and natural science in China.
Learn Chinese and Western, Communicator of Public Health
When Mr. Yu Fengbin was a child, he studied in a private school, which laid a solid foundation for China’s ancient prose and developed his lifelong interest in China literature and ancient books collection. He is a member of the "South Society" founded by Mr. Liu Yazi, who drinks and writes poems, which is quaint and romantic; He is also a medical consultant of Life Weekly sponsored by Mr. Zou Taofen, and he often writes articles on medical popularization to enlighten people’s wisdom. He practices medicine every day and reads and writes at night. In his study, the walls are full of books, many of which are rare and rare, which amaze his friends.
Yu Fengbin has excellent medical skills and has a unique method in the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and cholera. He is the pioneer of introducing and using X-ray diagnosis and using radium ingot for radiotherapy in China. In order to protect children’s eyesight, he carefully developed a rotatable chair, which was published in Chinese Medical Journal and widely publicized. Yu Fengbin attaches great importance to public health. Whenever there is an epidemic in summer, he always goes to the front line of the epidemic area to carry out epidemic prevention and control, and popularize and publicize epidemic prevention knowledge.
The world’s first x-ray machine
He compiled and published many books on health science, which made important contributions to the spread of health science in modern China. He not only founded Medical World and edited Chinese Medical Journal, but also compiled and published four volumes of Hygiene Conghua, Personal Hygiene, Evolution of Chinese and Western Medicine, and China Pharmaceutical Dispensing List. His translations include Tuberculosis Rehabilitation Law, Infant Care Law, School Health Lecture Notes and School Health Essentials. It has played an enlightening role in publicizing and popularizing new medical knowledge. The Outline of Physician Ethics translated by him, published in Chinese Medical Journal in 1919, is the first translation of "Medical Ethics" introduced in China, which is of groundbreaking significance. In addition, Mr. Yu Fengbin also published a large number of medical popular science articles in magazines such as Shenbao Supplement and Life Weekly, which played a role in popularizing and promoting the dissemination of medical scientific knowledge.
Although Mr. Yu Fengbin received a Western-style education, he was a medical scientist with a strong anti-imperialist and patriotic consciousness, and he was highly alert to the cultural aggression of western countries against China. In 1925, some radicals put forward the case of "Abolishing old doctors to remove obstacles in medical hygiene", which was passed by the First Central Health Committee of Shanghai Medical Association. In this environment, Yu Fengbin did not change his original intention, continued to advocate "getting rid of the shortcomings of old doctors and adopting the strengths of western medicine", and insisted on the method of combining traditional Chinese and western medicine for diagnosis and treatment, and published an interview with lung grass in Chinese Medical Journal in 1927.
In 1926, the British government expressed its willingness to return the G-sum according to the opinion of the British G-sum Advisory Committee, but it set many restrictions on the use of the G-sum. Yu Fengbin published the article "The Issue of Yinggeng Fund and Health Plan" in Chinese Medical Journal in time, and put forward specific suggestions on the use of Yinggeng Fund, demanding that it should be used to benefit the people of China. He suggested that the Geng fund could be used for: 1. Establishing a bacterial research institute; 2. Establish a health guidance office; 3. Establish a model hospital. He pointed out bluntly: "Our society really appreciates the kindness of the British government. If the use of Geng money is a policy of cultural aggression, and it is only a high-profile policy that cannot be actually returned, it will be more ill. " These words are still stirring when I read them today.
In 1926, Chinese and British representatives held two meetings in London on the Sino-British G-payment. After reaching an agreement, the two sides signed it.
However, the genius, a generation of doctors who deeply loved his country and nation, actively participated in the establishment of the Chinese Medical Association, presided over the examination and approval of medical terms, and made important contributions to the dissemination of public health knowledge, died on December 4, 1930 at the age of 46. Mr. Zou Taofen lamented: "It is unfortunate that a famous doctor should suffer from incurable diseases in the world. However, if you miss life for only a few decades, you can have no regrets about Mr. Lun’s contribution to society. " On March 15th, 1931, seven medical groups from China, including the Chinese Medical Association and the National Federation of Physicians, held a grand memorial meeting for Mr. Yu Fengbin in the auditorium of Shiji Hospital in Tibet Road. The huge elegiac couplet sent by the Chinese Medical Association hangs on the two sides of Mr. Wang’s legacy, and the elegiac couplet reads:
As a lecturer, he wrote diligently and fell in love with him for a long time. Unexpectedly, the bad news suddenly spread, which made the typical imagination empty.
Group learning, defining nouns, and pushing others by group flow. A long-term talent will never be relied upon, so it is impossible to lose sight of the middle road.
This is the most accurate and fair evaluation of Mr. Yu Fengbin, the pioneer of modern medicine in China.
Main reference: Dr. Yu Fengbin, an early famous activist of Chinese Medical Association by Xie Shusheng.
(Contributed by Taicang Shizhi Office)